See related research article by Costa and colleagues at www. cmaj. ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/
cmaj. 111271 dence. All reviews of prognostic studies are recommended to perform …

Understanding prognosis is important in managing low back pain. In this article, we discuss
the available evidence on low back pain prognosis and describe how prognostic evidence …

Background Although clinical guidelines generally portray chronic low back pain as a
condition with a poor prognosis this portrayal is based on studies of potentially …

Improved information on the natural history of back pain is needed to enable doctors and
their patients to understand the likely course of back pain and to evaluate whether …

Objective To describe long-term trajectories of back pain. Design Monthly data collection for
6 months at 7-year follow-up of participants in a prospective cohort study. Setting Primary …

AROUND 80% OF PEOPLE IN THE UK ARE AFFECTED BY LOW BACK PAIN AT SOME
TIME IN THEIR LIVES (1) and 1 in 15 of the population will consult their GP about a back …

Objective. To determine whether there are distinct trajectories of back pain and function
among older adults and to identify characteristics that distinguish among patients with …

Abstract Background Context Although back pain is common among older adults, there is
relatively little research on the course of back pain in this age group. Purpose Our primary …

The paper by Enthoven et al. in the current edition of Pain (ref) is the latest study in which the
techniques of epidemiology are used to investigate risks for persistence of common pain …

Back pain episodes are traditionally regarded as individual events, but this model is
currently being challenged in favour of treating back pain as a long-term or lifelong …